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Games like Infectious

If Infectious is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rabbit Riot, [Chilla's Art] Hanako | 花子さん and THREAT -SCREAM AND ESCAPE- — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its biologically accurate micro organisms, satisfying cell popping animations and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Infectious: Play as a lethal virus infecting various organs in your host's body while trying to outsmart the immune cells that seek to eliminate you and your kind. Generate clones and watch them propagate, infecting cells and taking down bosses.

2020ActionIndieSimulation3.99 USDWindowsby Ziggy Makes Games
Infectious — Steam game cover
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Biologically accurate micro organismsModding via browser dev toolsSatisfying cell popping animationsChallengingContemplativeFunny

Players who liked Infectious also play

Steam players who put hours into Infectious also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Rabbit Riot

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Infectious fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Infectious.

    Trapped in a rabbit’s body after military experiments, you must navigate a haunted mansion filled with dangers, unravel dark secrets, and escape before it’s too late.

    2021IndieAdventure39.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. [Chilla's Art] Hanako | 花子さん

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Infectious.

    Second-strongest match for Infectious fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    Hanako | 花子さん is a Japanese survival horror adventure game.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. THREAT -SCREAM AND ESCAPE-

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Infectious fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    THREAT -SCREAM AND ESCAPE- is a unique horror game where you must scream into your microphone to stun approaching creatures and make your escape. Use the power of your voice to clear the path and guide the protagonist, who wakes up in a mysterious research facility, to freedom.

    2025ActionIndieCasual8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Wonhon: The Beginning

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Infectious fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    A paranormal stealth-action and tactics game about a young Korean girl who was killed in a military conflict and returned from the dead with the ability to turn into a ghost and possess living creatures to exact her revenge.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  5. OtherSoul

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Infectious fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    In this horror game, you must do everything you can to escape the demon’s clutches alive. Your soul is at stake. You will be saved or you will be damned forever. Remember, in the game, your choices can affect the people most important to you. Protect them and your mental state! Fight to the end!

    2021ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Zombie Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Infectious fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!

    2021ActionIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. The Backrooms Project

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Infectious fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?

    2022ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. TORMENTOR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Infectious fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    Take on the role of a merciless torturer. Earn money from video transmissions of your manhunts.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Infectious at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Infectious on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Infectious on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Infectious.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Infectious on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Infectious.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Infectious on Steam right now. Shares Action with Infectious.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Infectious on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Infectious.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Infectious on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Infectious.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Infectious on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Infectious.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Final Revelation

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Infectious on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Infectious.

    The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?

    2020SimulationRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Infectious.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Infectious.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Infectious.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Infectious.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Infectious.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Infectious.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Ziggy Makes Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Ziggy Makes Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Infested: Space Colony

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ziggy Makes Games, the studio behind Infectious. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    Infested: Space Colony is an intense action top-down shooter in a dimly-lit environment where aliens roam in shadowy darkness. Explore various sections of the colony ship. Hunt down aliens before they hunt you down.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Bugged Out

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ziggy Makes Games, the studio behind Infectious. Shares Action and Indie with Infectious.

    Battle hordes of insects plaguing your neighborhood and don't... I repeat, don't let them climb up your face! Stay vigilant and avoid getting 'Bugged Out' as you navigate this pest-ridden world.

    2023ActionIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Jeff & Cubie

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ziggy Makes Games, the studio behind Infectious.

    A comedy-driven sci-fi tower defense where misunderstandings spiral into full-blown galactic hysteria.

    StrategySteam ↗

Frequently asked about Infectious

How much does Infectious cost?
Infectious is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Infectious?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Infectious are Rabbit Riot, [Chilla's Art] Hanako | 花子さん, THREAT -SCREAM AND ESCAPE-.
Who developed Infectious?
Infectious was developed by Ziggy Makes Games.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Infectious.

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